Created to celebrate MIT’s 150th anniversary in 2011, 150 Years in the Stacks is a look at MIT through the prism of its library collections. Think of it as a tour through the MIT Libraries’ open stacks and offsite storage areas, with a side trip to its closed-stack rare collections and an occasional glimpse into the vault.

The MIT Libraries have been around nearly as long as the Institute itself, and now hold over 3 million printed volumes, plus another 3 million items in other formats. It goes without saying that there is some very interesting stuff in there.